BIO: James Graham, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.

Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages,

Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and

Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and

Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc. Illustrated. Chicago: Warner, Beers

& Co., 1886.

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PART II.

HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

CHAPTER LIX.

UPPER ALLEN TOWNSHIP.

567 UPPER ALLEN TOWNSHIP.

JAMES GRAHAM, farmer, Mechanicsburg. In presenting the name of this

gentleman it can be pointed with pride to his long line of ancestry who

have been for so many years identified with the business interests of

the county and township, whose titles to lands bear the signature of

William Penn, and have never changed ownership, save as they have

descended from father to son, and from uncle to nephew. His great-

great-grandfather, James Graham, settled on the farm now owned by our

subject in 1685, having emigrated from Ireland. James Graham, the

grandfather of our subject, was the eld-

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est son, and married Miss Lytle, of Lancaster County, Penn., who bore

him five children, and of whom John, the father of our subject, was the

second son. John Graham was married, in 1811, to Miss Helen Taylor, of

Halifax, Dauphin Co., Penn., and two sons and four daughters blessed

their union, but all left home in the course of time except James

Graham, Jr., who was presented by his uncle, James Graham, Sr., with

the farm on which he has lived for so many years. He (James Graham,

Jr.) was born June 25, 1823; was married in the autumn of 1849, to Miss

Louisa S. Stalter, of Bedford County, Penn., and has three daughters

living: Ella, married to Martin L. Granville; Louisa married to A. B.

Clarks, of the United States Navy, and Burdetta; three daughters are

deceased. Mr. Graham has served as assessor, and has acceptably filled

other township offices. He and his wife have always been ardent

members of the Presbyterian Church. They are hale and hearty, and

expect to enjoy many years of happiness.